I'm going to take down the Vietnam pictures once the June holidays are over. After that, this blog will be dead and quiet. Of course unless I have an urge to post something. But do take note that these "urges" only come once or twice a year. So maybe, I should type now, "See you in 2009!"
Violin exam (aka dooms day) is on Friday, 18 July 2008. 15 46 at Verve Music School at Ang Mo Kio Avenue 6. Relatively near my house. Fine, very. Compared to previous years, my exam as always been in places like Paragon at Orchard Rd (Grade 7), some music school in Katong (Grade 5), and a music school in Takashimaya (Grade 3). So since this exam is in Ang Mo Kio, I would consider it as just at my doorstep. I plan to skip school or part of school (depending on tests on that day etc.) to warm up in the morning. Then have lunch, then laze around or practice again and then go for the exam. My piano accompanist is the same as the one I had for Grade 7. She also teaches me aural before exams. But I'm so happy, this is the last time I will have to suffer aural tests. Yay!
There is so much to practice, now, 1 hour is not enough. I've been doing 1.5-2hrs of practice daily for the past few week. This is bad. Scales take up 45mins. I have 150+ scales to practice, and that's only doing them once, but correcting mistakes too. I don't do studies now because I need to focus more on exam material. But I do them for roughly 10mins to practice sight reading. After that, exam pieces take 45mins. I try to limit my self to 10mins per piece, but it's not enough. Legende takes 7mins to play through once. Then I have to juggle music practical test for term 3, I'm playing Legende and Spring. (Argh, and Jie Ying, we need to coordinate soon!) On top of all that, I have to play the double concerto with jie ying for the string concert. Ah, but at least I played that 4 years ago. I can autopilot some of the fingering. Then I have to polish czardas further after the exam for the string concert. Then there's ensemble peices to practice for the concert (means alot of pieces). Argh. I might as well just spend my whole afternoon practicing like a mad person. Not that I can concentrate for so long either. (I know I haven't put a time estimate for the later sections because they're not really on my top priority list for the moment.)
(section to Jie Ying. When do we ask ms tan to help us coordinate? And we have to spend time on double concerto. Sigh. I think I'll have to give up pure humans free period for czardas and double concerto. Oh, you too. Sorry for ditching you next week, but please don't be stressed leading sectionals and try to look forward to it. Honestly, I do look forward to every practice session. I don't know why, but i do.)
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